my horse, i believe, i have a furious soul, and even at sunrise i will steal horses faithfully to the battle for years, host ostap yarysh, more than a tenth of the planes will depart from the usa during the next day, with the ban on aid to ukraine

. military support from western partners arrives almost every day, the pentagon added that over the past day, 20 shipments of defense aid from seven different countries were delivered to various places in the region, while according to the ministry of the us defense, the attack of russian forces in donbas is happening much more slowly than russia would like, largely due to the resistance of the ukrainian military in order for military aid to ukraine to continue to flow uninterrupted . my colleague kateryna lisunova followed the accelerated procedure for voting and debates in the congress this week. she is with us in direct communication with the capitorium of katya vitayu i congratulate you. ostapa killed the draft law on land-forests was approved by the house of representatives of the congress . 417 congressmen were in favor and 10 were against, but what is the further procedure for the implementation of this draft law and how exactly will the alain lisa program

continue to work. in fact, for the draft law to become law, it must be signed by the president of the united states of america dose to biden, but as yesterday's comments for the voice of america, ukrainian ambassador to the usa oksana markarova reported, in fact, the approval of the program does not mean the approval of this bill the launch of the lend-lease program itself, then the american side must fill this program with specific weapons and specific military aid for ukraine, in addition, markarov noted that the glenleague will not be the only aid program for ukraine, it is only one of the aids, additional aid under which ukraine will maintain weapons from the united states america, that is, after signing this document - this does not mean that in the future ukraine will receive weapons only under the lend-lease program, this will be additional assistance assistance to ukraine, in addition to reminding our viewers that the main priority and assistance to ukraine in relation to this lease is the speed of providing assistance to ukraine and removing the bureaucracy

in fact. in this way, the united states of america will be able to lend, rent and lease weapons and military equipment to ukraine and for by a simplified procedure, the equipment used in the future can be written off. and that which will be lost during hostilities will not necessarily be used for payment by ukraine. i suggest you listen read more about it in the comments for the voice of america of the ambassador of ukraine to the united states, oksana markarova, not the lend-lease itself, so to speak, not the contract itself, in which it is written that for what amount and when it is still a budget process, yes, for uh, our own uh, ours funds do not prevent us and now to buy the issue of lend-lease is a matter of providing the united states to us, but today the united states provides us through several programs, we will simply have another opportunity through which the tool will be able to cooperate yesterday just essentially

during the vote green forest congress building opened a photo exhibition dedicated to the russian war in ukraine and you know there was tell me a little more about this event yes ostap in the congress building congress opened a photo exhibition with photos of ukraine buildings of ukraine and also ukrainians after the full-scale russian invasion of ukraine and in fact thus e congressmen and the competition can see with their own eyes what is happening in ukraine as a result of russian aggression as a result of the russian war - this exhibition is open will be from nine in the morning to six in the evening, and during the opening, not only the parcel of ukraine oksana markarova was present, but also the speaker of the house of representatives, nancy pylos, in her speech, in particular, emphasized the courage of ukrainians in this war, offers to listen to a fragment of her speech, an emotional time for the people of ukraine admire their heroism almost as incredible as the brutality they now face we often hear that the

russians have a huge advantage in terms of firepower they have more but in terms of motivation in the ukrainian people are defeating them and these photos are also an obvious proof. during this exhibition, other members of the congress were present and in fact they also commented on other aid to ukraine and the next step, as you know, will be the approval of new financial aid for ukraine, and in particular this financial aid from that lend-lease program, and thanks to it, we can expect more defense of weapons for ukraine at least this is what oksana markarova also talked about comments for the voice of america katya thank you very much for the two analyzes we will monitor the further development of events katya lisonova from the capitol building join our broadcast and we return to the discussion of other topics this week gazprom cut off gas supplies to poland and bulgaria because they refused

to pay for gas in rubles the eu responded by declaring solidarity with these countries and the president of the usa, joe biden, noted that russia will not be able to lift the sanctions by threats, we will not allow them to get out of the sanctions through intimidation or blackmail, we will not allow them to escape the consequences the president of the united states declared aggression and added that the united states is negotiating with japan, qatar, and south korea in order to prevent a gas crisis in europe. their opinion, what is putin trying to achieve now, the kremlin's main goal is to force europe to pay in rubles for gas, because after the west introduced sanctions, the kremlin's ability to receive dollars and euros knowledge was limited. i also spoke with the american analyst benjamin schmidt from sepa, and he pointed out

another goal of the kremlin, and the kremlin wants to scare europe away from supporting ukraine, and according to the analyst, this signal is primarily addressed to germany and austria. solution of poland olgaia, i think they were deliberately chosen poland and bulgaria is a signal of a country that depends much more on russian gas than poland and bulgaria. the idea is that more countries pay in rubles and thus support the ruble exchange rate. in fact, this is a signal from germany and austria to see if their companies will go for it, i hope no, no oksana, according to the experts, did russia manage to achieve those goals with these steps, using such a method, and actually intimidate europe and achieve what putin really set himself after gazprom cut off poland and bulgaria we saw that hungary, as well as some

companies in austria, germany, and italy, declared their readiness to make overpayments for gas in rubles. and this is a bad signal for the unity of europe, i was told about this by a british energy analyst - ana, however the expert advises to wait until the legal evaluation of such actions appears, and the company's evaluation of the situation by the european union has generally failed. i would say that russia wants to see what will be the strong reaction of the european commission, or whether they will take russia to court, because the suspension of supplies with an existing contract is a violation, buyers can submit to court on gazprom to you the european union must react powerfully and quickly proto-companies that violate the eu sanctions policy in gazprom's contracts with european buyers it is clearly stated that calculations in rubles are not are carried out, and such actions can not only violate

sanctions but also the contract with gazprom. this opinion of the experts that we heard is really interesting, and there is a lot of talk about this gas crisis, potentially about the use of energy as a weapon. they are talking about whether russia is now acting in its efforts to use energy gas as a weapon, or whether they are now causing a new gas of minds in europe. what do analysts say about this, and it is interesting that this gas crisis began unlike other times, and this crisis started at the end of the heating season, when in fact the need for energy resources is not as great as in other times, that is why benjaminmead believes that europe has a chance to win this gas war, but he also points to weak links such as hungary and germany, i.e. hungary recently

how he believes that both of these countries in recent years have acted contrary to the directive of the european union of 2015 contrary to those recommendations and only deepened their dependence on russia thus for example, hungary recently signed a 15-year contract with gazprom for the supply of gas, and germany has long supported these two, which of course means rapprochement in the gas sector with europe, but still analysts point to the change of leadership with the new minister of energy in germany and germany started the movement from russia and even now it is about the construction of a liquefied gas terminal, that is, the situation there is changing. back to you, let's go back to poland and bulgaria, they had long-term contracts with gazprom that expire this year

even without a blackout, these countries did not depend on russia, like bulgaria, and poland said that they would not renew these contracts. poland plans to open a new pipeline that will provide 10 billion cubic meters of gas, exactly as much as it receives from russia. it also has a liquefied gas terminal and plans to expand it by 2027 year to build a second terminal in relation to bulgaria they get azerbaijan's gas through turkey and can increase it also it can get liquefied gas from greece europe is in a good position but it does not have alternatives the eu and individual countries have committed to significantly reduce dependence on russian hydrocarbons, get rid of its imports as soon as possible so as not to provide funds to putin for aggression against ukraine, and europe must also move at the speed of wartime to build infrastructure and expand the capacity of liquefied gas terminals

and deliver this as soon as possible resource in the eu before the beginning of the winter season, because winter will come again and therefore we need to act now, we started the opinion of experts. and in fact, the ukrainian authorities also emphasized on the increase of energy the independence of europe and the united states, including oksana. thank you very much for your analysis. for your comments, it was oksana batarenko, our journalist who followed the topic of energy oksano. thank you for downloading the voice of america mobile application. informational programs and videos, as well as listen to podcasts in ukrainian of the voice of america service, we are returning to our air as a result of russia's attack on kyiv , the journalist of radio svobody, vira hyrych, died this it happened on april 28, after a russian rocket hit

her house only a couple of weeks ago. vera shared the joy of meeting her parents, who spent a month in the russian occupation, the car had to fill up on the streets, the car is a big problem, the gas station closest to me has also not been working for several days. secretary of the un antonio buterrish to kyiv. this car damaged by the explosion belonged to vira gerych. another supermarket is located in my area. it's also the turn of ira gerych to work on radio svoboda. from 2018 until then, she worked on the leading ukrainian tv channels. on march 5, this is one of the most popular streets in kyiv. now it is almost

completely empty. most of the people have left. and who could n't go ? vira hyrych has an adult son left in the editorial office of radio svoboda, they said that they will always remember dedication to work and professionalism of our journalist vera, we are devastated by the loss of faith this night, obviously, we know that any journalist who works in ukraine takes a great risk, but who has lost faith, this is a huge blow for radio svoboda tim moreover, at that moment she was a widow in kyiv. she died during a senseless attack that caused harm to news civilians. the voice of america ukrainian service expresses its condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of the hyrych faith. the statement was also published in

the leadership of the voice of america and usajm . and dedication to work and benevolence to all of our renewed commitment to unbiased coverage of news and information that led the leadership of the voice of america will recall from the beginning of the full-scale invasion russia has already killed at least 22 journalists and media persons in ukraine. see you in a few seconds . we will return and continue to tell more in our extended version of the time plus program. the war forced the world not only to talk about ukraine , but also to rethink certain stereotypes. n.p. laureate of the police prize and the author of a historical work on the holodomor, the red

famine, stalin's war against ukraine, on the destruction of old meanings and the creation of new ones, and also on perception of russia in the world see further in the interview the first question you recently came to kyiv interviewed the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi can you share your main impressions from the trip from your conversations admin cover station and how good zelenskyi from the conversation actually how good zelensky functions in the modern world as a kind of anti-putin, as a different leader, we met with him at his presidential residence quite late in the evening, although, of course, we had to go through many procedures in order to to see him when we finally entered the room to meet him there was not a long table like the one putin makes his guests sit at there was no complicated protocol he just entered the room and said hello in english to everyone and

complained about the back or something like that and the atmosphere immediately became informal and seemingly normal. he is certainly a human being, not some big inflated figure, and i think that this is one of his strongest points, this is one of the reasons why people trust him. of ukraine can you summarize how the west looks at ukraine differently now than it was possible before the war ukrainianoid mr. merkel, first of all, the ukrainian audience should know that most americans before the war would not have been able to find ukraine on a map, that now every night on television there are big maps of ukraine, and tv presenters talk about kherson, kharkiv, kramatorsk - this is already a big change, where is it, who lives there, dozens of ukrainian voices are now heard on american television, what has been done to ukraine

more realistically , the fact that so many civilized people are fighting, so many people are joining the ranks of the territorial defense, so many people are returning to the state to fight, is of great importance, but the bravery of the country is also important, the fact that you expelled the russians from the northern kyiv region and saved the capital, which was supposed to fall in three days by this, ukraine has earned extraordinary respect, it cannot be quantified, but that image of ukraine as a post-soviet state, corrupt, weak , organized, is not there now and will never be about in in your book dusk democracy, you wrote about the attractiveness of a non-liberal world order and the state of democracy in the world, and it was published even before the start of the war, so how did the situation change - the war in

ukraine ? over the past few years, europe has been convinced that there is a certain boundary between the liberal values ​​of openness and tolerance on the one hand and patriotism or nationalism on the other hand, and that they are different and contradict each other, one of the things that the ukrainians showed us is that it is possible to be militant patriots, defenders of a society that lives according to liberal principles and believes in tolerance, this is one of the reasons why currently both parties in the usa support ukraine both democrats and republicans, let's move on to events in ukraine, do you think that the mass crimes of russian soldiers are genocide, because you are an expert in this matter, i definitely believe that the russians use the language of genocide and that there is an intention to commit genocide, in other words, they strive to kill ukrainians because they are ukrainians without punishing them for a specific crime, not because they are soldiers,

but because they are ukrainians, and this indicates the intention to commit genocide, we do not yet know what the scale will be. of it history to what extent do you agree that russia has been leading its history since the time of kievan rus', it promotes aggression against ukraine, this is a popular opinion in ukraine, but in the west it is almost unknown. speaks about history, it is so strange that i was completely unprepared for his comments about lenin's invented ukraine, we all remember these words of his, it is difficult to say what he really believes in relation to ukrainian history and what russians believe, however, there is definitely a belief that kyiv is how the russian city that belongs to them is

russian by origin, it is really deeply rooted in the russian mentality, and explaining to them why this is not true will be an extremely important task for ukrainians during the next century ukraines so one of the rights of the russian government or russia in general for the radical right forces in this world even in democratic countries is that they position themselves as defenders of traditional goals now we all see russian soldiers torturing rape killing innocent civilians of ukraine do you think that russia has lost its allure and its allies will leave its sisterhood it's a lighty on the world in the dead it's true that some of russia's famous allies around the world are now building a certain distance between herself and putin, the most famous of course is marin lepen, who was the loudest

supporter of russia in europe and even she said in the last few days that she supports ukraine. i want to warn you that of course there will be people not only in europe but also in the world who will support putin and putinism that they don't like western democracy because they don't like the usa because they believe like some leftists that the war was started by nato or the americans so i don't think we have witnessed the end of putin's sentiments in the world for ukraine it will be extremely important to communicate with people from africa, the middle east, asia, including when the war is over, poletishyn, and the last question: do you live in poland, are you married to a polish politician ? a soldier and i was in some sense, i was surprised because in

polish politics, in particular, in the party currently in power, there were anti-ukrainian sentiments, they were not close to ukraine or ukrainian leaders. and this what made them different from the previous polish governments to be honest my husband was the minister of foreign affairs of poland during the maidan he was one of those who created the eastern partnership which led to a trade agreement with ukraine his government was so pro-ukrainian so closely connected with ukrainian politicians as it was possible, the current government was not, it took a slightly different path. however, it is true that from the beginning of the war, a completely different atmosphere was planned, which came from the grassroots, polish civil society caught fire with the desire to help with something, almost the entire refugee resettlement program was carried out not by the government, but by ordinary people, it was spontaneous, it was from the grassroots, it was caused by empathy and understanding of historical parallels in 1939, germany and russia together captured poland and no one helped us, there was no

american help, there were no howitzers from washington did not arrive, and then after the end of the war, although poland was one of the allies, it was captured for the second time by the red army in 1944-45, again no one covered their backs and did not help precisely therefore this feeling that we have to help we should at least do something in my opinion is extremely powerful and it is based on empathy and to some extent fear because of course we are afraid that we can be next i hope the war will not last so long that people get tired of ukrainians we all hope that it will soon end with a great victory for ukraine and we continue the issue because of russia's war against ukraine, not only people but also animals become forced migrants yaroslav movchan will tell about tabunkon a criminal in the luhansk region who survived during the shelling

thanks to his leader and then thanks to the heroic efforts of his groom was evacuated to the dnipro kostiantyn collects water and goes to water the horses a black stallion with a distinctive white star on its head a six-year-old hindu, although in the veterinary passport the animal is recorded as indigo for his pet a man always has a treat a horse for such gifts every time he thanks his owner the leader of the herd of the equestrian theater discriminates it was he who saved the other horses when the city shuddered from the attacks of the russians the occupiers and the nakedness of the enemy's armored vehicles, at that time the animals were left without the care of people, the frightened caretakers saved their own families, and when shells began to fly nearby, that is, this horse opened the lavada, led out, or an influx, that is, if it wasn't for him, there

probably wouldn't have been any stables. konstantin worked as a trainer and a stuntman in the local equestrian in the theater when russia openly attacked ukraine, he was in kyiv , there he studied blacksmithing in order to shoe horses himself, he asked friends to open a stable over the phone because he assumed that animals could to die of hunger and so there was a ghostly chance for salvation there when there were explosions so they ran away they hid somewhere in the fields there they were but they still returned they went home to the occupation of crime there are going to be heavy battles around the city the trainer for whatever reason decided to return for the animals for he organized an operation to rescue them, turned to the international federation of equestrian sports and started looking for money and volunteers. kostiantyn says it's a miracle, but what he planned was successful when we when we took them out, we arrived somewhere at night, only i

i unloaded them by dividers, poured oats, poured them all, poured drinks, sat on the protocones, i didn’t understand what the material had just been made, and then when it was finished, i sat crying like a child. the horses are already calmly grazing in the summer paddock, they are standing, it’s terrible, you can’t even think of twenty animals in the stable now, some of them are refugees, a schoolgirl with her pet, fleeing the invaders and the war for the second time , the first time she left her native donetsk in 2014, when her took up karate and settled in kharkiv, she found a place for her horse there, but now the constant shelling of the city forced the woman to look for a safer place, authority, his name is authority

, affectionately, ayuha, two ears, and yuka, two ears, he is my mother's son , we have been 12 years old, 12 years old, she came to us flew in several times, so we took a risk, we have to leave kostyantyn plans to resume the work of his theater, such a new club is already in ternopil region, in addition to performances, he plans to engage in hippotherapy, he will treat ukrainian children and the military want to go to his marina joined the team with her authority , the coach has already decided on the name of the club, our cinema, our stable will be called kremenshina kremivna, ot skazhem, we give it to the honest city of yaroslavl movchan, oleksandr kharoshun for voice of america from dnipro, download the voice of america mobile application , the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn

service read news, watch informative programs and videos, as well as listen to podcasts in ukrainian by voice of america my greetings to all viewers who join us, this is a tv channel live tv channel espresso my name is yuliya shpychynska, she is making broadcasts and today until one in the morning, so i won't let you sleep, i guarantee, i promise, because there are interesting guests, many interesting topics, we will discuss the current situation, which is now, so i will give you a little information or connect a guest with him to talk about all this poland transferred to ukraine military equipment and weapons in the total amount of 1.6 billion dollars, this information was published by the ukrainian service of polish radio, the transfer of equipment, in particular t-72 tanks, will be confirmed to polish journalists by the head of the national security bureau countries pavlo solokh, in addition, the czech republic has already provided

military aid to ukraine in the amount of almost 3 billion kroner - that is about 128 million dollars. land forest for ukraine, the senate supported it even earlier, now the document remains only for president joe biden to sign, where to allow it to be sent more efficiently without all this bureaucratic red tape weapons, ammunition and equipment to ukraine, in turn, president zelensky thanked the united states for their help and stated that lend-less and other programs in support of ukraine are concrete proof that freedom is still able to defend itself against tyranny, what else did he talk about